Doug, could you go back to the slide entitled “Modernizing the law”?
I say so because I would just like to add that the recommendation of the duty to document, wherever it is contained in terms of the statute, is part of a suite of recommendations that we made, which include the provision of data sets—and for that we had to change the definition of public record—and publication schemes, for which we recommended that the commissioner set up templates and then different public bodies, depending on their type would automatically publish the information—with the personal information redacted of course—after a certain time period.
This part is central to modern thinking on access to information, which is no longer about a body of information. You, as a citizen, first of all, try to figure out what you should be asking, where you should be asking it, and then you ask for that piece of information. But it's up to the government, as the holder of the information on behalf of all of us, to make this information known and to make it easily available. You think of research, and innovation, and how much of this information needs to be out in the public, and simply to play the goalie, shall we say, so that the information is safely released in a way that doesn't harm individuals.